Mats Hummels Quotes

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

When you play against Barcelona and other great teams in the world, you can lose. It happens.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Losing is part of football.

I have a lot of respect for who beats me and that's it.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

You never want to lose but it happens in the NFL.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

We're not going to win every single one.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

It is tough, you don't want to lose games.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I wasn't thinking that I was going to go through my career undefeated. You expect to lose sometimes.

I hate when the other team has the ball.

You cannot win every game.

I'm not naive. It's football. You're going to make mistakes.

Football's football. You're going to come across the good and the bad, but you've got to take it all in your stride.

I've always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.